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Most of the innovations occurred in a few other games, and WoW was quick to copy the interesting ones. Like the invasions from Rift. The only truly attempt to be really innovative in MMO was the ill-fated, ill-executed Defiance. But the concept was impossible to do well within the production...

Back when HALO - the original version on Mac, not the Xboxed bastard - was announced, I thought this would be a kick-ass control MMO for the online game. Your team can target any - procedurally generated - section adjacent to any section controlled by your faction, or defense which picks a...

Yes it is. The problem is a discrepancy between your eye and inner ear, not a problem of body movements. It's the same mechanic that causes transport sickness. The current "solution" is teleport, or "point and click". You target to your destination, you warp there, and your brain doesn't think...

Thing is, Asheron's Call 1 (released 1999) did it. Content/events every month. Including a poll "which starter city do you want us to destroy next month" (complete with people relogging after the patch and dying from falling damage into the crater). Arwic, oh Arwic...

Trion tried to make a Minecraft MMO with Trove. Unfortunatly, I think they thought the aesthetic of Minecraft was what made it popular (hint: it wasn't). And then there is Wynncraft (which uses Minecraft to make a classic MMO).

VR still hasn't solved the transport sickness problem. When you move in VR, your brain notices that your inner ear isn't reporting the movement "properly". Which makes you sick and prone to throwing up. Games manage to avoid that by having you stay in place, or put in a vehicle where your brain...

Rofl, now that I'm reminded, I can hope that this will still happen

(since the previous thread has mostly died, here's a new one) Caveat: this is not a MMO-specialized channel, so having Gamer Zakh excited about Pantheon or Crowfall will probably generate massive groans. But at least, I learned about a few new MMOs (all crowdfunded, of course). Now, discuss...

Plot holes... plot holes... Are you sure it's not about potholes instead? It's a movie with cars. Potholes are dangerous!

No, it was the capsule used for the fist ISS flight, and scheduled for an emergency abort test. The test was that they'd launch, and then, at Max-Q (just after supersonic, when the worst dynamic effort are exerted and the flight is the most likely to have problem) they'd separate and land the...

A whole series of tow trucks. Chained together.

That's what their excuse was. "We're only making armor sets rather than class sets, so they're going to be awesomely detailed!" From the look, the artists that were going to develop those armors are all working on something else.

I tend to follow Bellular for generic game news (non-MMO), but that video was interesting: Basically, engagement across all youtubers is down for Patch 8.2. They get less views, less likes, even less dislikes. And he's wondering if Blizzard is going to get those people back so easily for 9.0...

Back then (in BC), they changed that. ilvl up to around 90 was linear, but during BC, they changed the stat/ilvl formula. Starting then, you had the "modern" formula of 15 ilvl = +10% stat (30ilvl = +21%, 45ilvl = +33%, 60ilvl = +46%, and so on), which meant they just had to plug "next tier is...

They have a locking system. Unfortunately, it's designed around Falcon 9 boosters, and the Heavy central cores are slightly larger, which means their locks don't work. So they use a temporary securing system... which isn't good enough.

The Schwartzchild radius of the a non-spinning black hole event horizon is a function of its mass, and nothing else. Black holes are defined by exactly three parameters: mass, rotation and charge. Know those three, everything else around them is deductible from that. Iannis mentioned a...

It's Kylo Ren, so he might have tried that.

Awesome view from Ars Technica's photographer:

The era of "astronomy pictures" ended when digital pixel imaging was invented. It didn't take long before the old system of sensitive plates (you used plates, because they were rigid and didn't stretch over exposition time like celluloid) was replaced by digital. And now, you have gigapixel...

There is no "raw" image. You needed to mix 8 different telescopes to get that view, none of the telescope could image anything on its own. So it's a computer composite. *EDIT* Also, I just checked, and it's radio telescopes. So no real color anyway.

Early during Thor 3, yes (when Loki shows him the location of the - now demolished - homeless shelter where he left Odin).

This reminds me of the entire run of E.E. Doc Smith Lensman series. They start with big battles of missiles, and by the end of the series, throwing PLANETS of ANTIMATTER at your ennemy is... an obsolete and relatively ineffective weapon.

QFT. That's the essence of everyone's beef with TF (WF with its 10ilvl cap might get a pass, since that makes an item of lower power than the next harder tier of content).

Micro spoilage

Which is absolutely why level and ilvl scaling are absolutely everywhere today.

Yep, me too. As said above, it's an ok movie, with an actress that could have done/been better in the role.

As an aside, I just finally realized that they kept the old schtick of someone losing an arm during the Infinity War. It's just that, since it's Groot, he regrows it usually fast. (said arm being use as a handle for Stormbreaker)

The thing is, you ordered a McDeluxe meal with extras (Mythic raid), and the guy coming ordered a basic burger and... got a McDeluxe with supersized soda (Emissary titanforge). And so, you're "why did I spend so much and the guy whipped a dollar bill and got more than me?"

They still do. Zero-time LFG queues will do that to anyone.

You keep that paladin out of combat, then he can still help during the fight by rezing.

In the original (as in, Norse Myth, not Marvel original), he's not only a Frost Giant's son, he's blood brother to... Odin himself (instead of being Thor's "brother"). Which is why his antics in Asgard get tolerated until he manages to get Baldur killed. I was sad that he wasn't correctly...

They always said they had the original game code and data. It's just that it would not run on any modern hardware or current servers. Which is why they backport the original behavior on the current codebase.

Yep. Then it's waiting for the shipping (hardcover for me, since it's Orbit, and half the books from Orbit - notably the Expanse - break down when they land on my ebook reader)

One post-credit scene of Dr Strange is one of the early scenes in Thor 3.

Given that they occur "more or less" in real time, then order of release = order of watching is good.

For now. Note that a number of your car functions are increasingly tied, not to network connectivity, but third party services. The Nissan incident is an example: a third party can easily prevent you from using your own possession at any time. Amazon can remove an edition of 1984 from your...

Sometimes, it's more like non-autonomous systems: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/03/13/zipcar-disruption-reveals-vagaries-tech-connectivity/OXdeNy9L6aLD1Yz6qyemdK/story.html TL;DR: All of Zipcar's vehicles are remotely controlled. If the car can't ensure over the network it's...

Apparently, three $10 toys appeared temporarily on the store before vanishing quickly.

You can blame Microsoft for that one. Once they introduced their achievement point system in Xbox around 2005, everyone followed suit quickly.

Well, of course. In the 90s, any "server" was piloted using a text 80x25 terminal, over RS232.